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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8190048" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I think it would be better to have this talk with your DM than us. The best we can do is tell you how we run the game and why, but that won’t help you if your DM doesn’t want to change the way they run the game.For whatever it’s worth, what I do is ask my players to describe their actions in terms of what they want to accomplish and what their character does to try and accomplish it. So, in a social interaction you might say, “I try to persuade him to help us by appealing to his sense of pity and morality.” If a player wants to act out exactly what their character says, they can, but I’ll be listening for what they seem to want to accomplish and how they’re trying to accomplish it in a broad sense. Then, I will call for a check if their character’s approach seems like it might succeed, might fail, and has a consequence for failure. Otherwise I will describe the results without calling for a check.I believe this to be consistent with what the rules describe. Unfortunately, if your DM insists that you must act out what your character says, and relies on this acting alone to determine the results, there is probably little you can do to convince them to change their behavior. Talk to them, explain how you understand the rules and why you think the way they’re running it isn’t fair to you as players. But in my experience, DMs who do this are very difficult to convince to change their ways.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8190048, member: 6779196"] I think it would be better to have this talk with your DM than us. The best we can do is tell you how we run the game and why, but that won’t help you if your DM doesn’t want to change the way they run the game. For whatever it’s worth, what I do is ask my players to describe their actions in terms of what they want to accomplish and what their character does to try and accomplish it. So, in a social interaction you might say, “I try to persuade him to help us by appealing to his sense of pity and morality.” If a player [I]wants[/I] to act out exactly what their character says, they can, but I’ll be listening for what they seem to want to accomplish and how they’re trying to accomplish it in a broad sense. Then, I will call for a check if their character’s approach seems like it might succeed, might fail, and has a consequence for failure. Otherwise I will describe the results without calling for a check. I believe this to be consistent with what the rules describe. Unfortunately, if your DM insists that you must act out what your character says, and relies on this acting alone to determine the results, there is probably little you can do to convince them to change their behavior. Talk to them, explain how you understand the rules and why you think the way they’re running it isn’t fair to you as players. But in my experience, DMs who do this are very difficult to convince to change their ways. [/QUOTE]

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